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| NAME = Descamps, Guillaume |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Painter and engraver |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1779 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Lille]], France |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1858 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH = Paris, France |
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Revision as of 10:28, 14 May 2016
Guillaume-Désiré-Joseph Descamps, a painter and engraver, was born at Lille in 1779. He was a pupil of François-André Vincent, but, obtaining the "prix de Rome," he improved himself by travelling in Italy, and became court-painter of Murat in Naples. He died in Paris in 1858. The following paintings were executed by him:
- The Women of Sparta (in the Lille Museum). 1808.
- The Martyrdom of St. Andrew (in St. Andrė, Lille).
- Murat on board the Ceres distributing Rewards (engraved hy himself).
- The Conversion of St. Augustine (in St. Eustache, Paris).
- The Apotheosis of Cardinal Tommasi (in San Martino di Monti, Rome).
- The Neapolitan Troops marching out against Capri.
As an engraver he also produced six plates from the 'Fable of Psyche.'
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "DESCAMPS, Guillaume Désiré Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]